Ingestible robot operates in simulated stomach

Ingestible robot operates in simulated stomach Boston MA (SPX) May 16, 2016 - In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound. The new work, whi ... more

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